Word: subverter
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...laws that make it increasingly difficult for licensed, law-abiding Americans to own a firearm. These proposals do not seem practical in light of the current state of violent crime in our country. Nevertheless, we should not think of Gore as a candidate who would totally subvert the Constitution and endanger ordinary Americans. He is correct in proposing that gun legislation be examined, and National Rifle Association (NRA) radicals are usually intractable, even when it comes to issues as moderate as child safety locks...
...There's a perception out there that lawyers and courts work to subvert the "will of the people." And, of course, sometimes they do. But did lawyers and courts work to thwart the "will of the people" during the elimination of the poll tax or in allowing the integration of Little Rock High School...
However, this method of accessing music online was intended to do more than give Kozmo-ites an excuse never to leave their computers. It was cleverly designed to subvert the music industry's control over the distribution of music. Bands that the music industry's corporate elite had decided were not worthy of promotional support could now be easily accessed online. In addition, Napster challenged the one-hit album marketing ploy. Surely one of the reasons that music industry executives were worried about Napster was that they were afraid that after hearing 'that hit song' on the radio, Napster users...
While I am not such a conspiracy-theorist to believe that the University is deliberately trying to subvert the aspirations of its art students, the school must become aware of the power of what it does not say or do. It is human nature to crave a certain amount of recognition and even approval. Harvard's mute stance towards its art students leaves them with the impression that they are not worthwhile, not of value, at least in relation to students pursuing other occupations. Granted, there are more students interested in banking and consulting than in art, yet the approximately...
...predominantly armed ideologues laying claim to what they see as the biblical Land of Israel regardless of Palestinian ownership or international law, have little interest in seeing through the peace process. And the present hair-trigger climate certainly gives the more reckless among them plenty of opportunity to subvert it. In 1994, Hebron settler Baruch Goldstein tried to do just that by massacring 29 Palestinians in a religious shrine before being beaten to death, and his action is still celebrated annually by sections of the settler community as an act of martyrdom - even though the Israeli army earlier this year...